Next on Trump's List: Rein in the UN Dictators Club

Establishment globalists were right to be concerned about the fate of their schemes. After a fast-paced first week of putting “America First” by targeting pseudo-“free trade” regimes and rogue regulatory agencies, President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to take on the United Nations. Its swarms of agencies, programs, bureaucracies, conventions, and associated schemes are also in the crosshairs. According to a January 25 report in the anti-Trump New York Times, which claimed to have seen a set of draft orders being prepared by the administration, Trump plans to drastically reduce the U.S. government's role at the UN and other international organizations. He is also planning a review of sovereignty-stealing UN treaties, with a view toward restoring self-government in various policy areas and saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. Globalists everywhere are in a panic.

Other requirements under the draft order include instituting cuts of “at least 40 percent” in all remaining U.S. taxpayer funding to international organizations. The Times claimed it was not clear whether the order was intended to cut 40 percent or more of the American funding for each UN agency, or whether the cuts were aimed at the entire federal funding budget feeding the array of largely hostile international bureaucracies. Also set to be reviewed, according to the orders, is any funding that could be diverted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), a kangaroo court that claims to have jurisdiction over every person on Earth, including Americans and journalists, despite the fact that the U.S. Senate never ratified the agreement creating it.

The second draft executive action purportedly seen by the Times is the “Moratorium on New Multilateral Treaties.” According to the report, the order would demand a review of all current and pending multilateral treaties involving more than one foreign government. The review would be followed by recommendations on which negotiations, conventions, or treaties the U.S. government should ditch. That order specifically mentions the “Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” which has been weaponized by governments worldwide to assault freedom and family. It also mentions the UN “Convention on the Rights of the Child,” a totalitarian scheme that Scottish lawmakers cited to justify the assignment of a named bureaucrat to oversee the upbringing and indocrination of each and every child. The U.S. Senate has refused to ratify either scheme.

It is unclear whether the latest report is accurate or even substantially accurate. The Times, which has lost much of its credibility in recent months with its anti-Trump hysteria masquerading as journalism, has been widely criticized across the political spectrum for its extreme bias in favor of Hillary Clinton, the man-made global-warming theory, globalism, and Big Government. It played a key role in covering up the Soviet genocide of Ukrainians, in bringing Castro the “freedom fighter” to power in Cuba, and in advancing the globalist agenda of swamp central aka the Council on Foreign Relations. In fact, after resigning, a reporter for the self-styled “newspaper of record” ridiculed the Times as a “propaganda megaphone” for the establishment, war, and more.

Liberty-minded insiders at the UN who have spoken to this reporter have long warned that it would be preferable to shut down and abolish the UN agencies — particularly to avoid the ongoing abuse of the global bureaucracies by the Communist Chinese regime and other autocracies to spy on the West, undermine Western economies, restrict liberty, legitimize tyranny, and more. A 1995 non-paper by the U.S. State Department entitled “Readying the United Nations for the 21st Century” recommended shutting down and consolidating a wide array of UN programs, agencies, and schemes. Today, more than a few prominent voices have continued to call for shutting down UNESCO, UNIDO, the UN HRC, and numerous other out-of-control bureaucracies.

Of course, Trump's expected actions represent an excellent place to start — especially after eight years of Obama, who in his last speech to the dictator-dominated UN General Assembly openly called for America to “accept constraints,” “giving up some freedom of action” (also known as self-government), and “binding ourselves to international rules.” However, a much better and more permanent solution would be to get the U.S. out of the UN completely. Legislation to do that, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193), is currently sitting in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And with enough public pressure, 2017 can be the year that America finally breaks free of the dictators club.

Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is normally based in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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